The application of redemption

they shall seek me early and shall not find me and yet bestows mercy and […] known himself unto some who never sought him. Isai. 65. 1. That we may […] from hence for ever to fear and avoid that heretical doctrine of the Arminians so deeply dangerous to the salvation of mens souls and so exceedingly derogatory to the glory of Gods free grace in Christ, who maintain that if we do what we can, and improve the natural abilities ⟨p. 300⟩we have, and the means we do enjoy God will not deny to give us the grace supernatural we want. An opinion so gross that the Popish school will not abide by it, and the most ingenuous of the Jesuits themselves do professedly oppose and condemn. For besides that it destroys the comfort of a sinner & dasheth the hopes of all the sons of men, for if none should be saved but those that do what they can, its certain never any man either in nature or grace did what he […] either improving his natural abilities as he might according to special opportunities and liberties put into his hand, nor […] faithful ever to husband their grace according to what they received and was expected, and might also be justly challenged at their hands; If therefore their hopes had their support here, their hearts and hopes and comforts and happiness and all would fail them, and they must needs have their lives and their everlasting condition ever in doubt and suspense, and in issue sink down in everlasting discouragement, but I say besides this it destroys the whole frame of grace in the carriage of it.

they shal seek me early and shal not find me and yet bestowes mercy and 〈…〉 known himself unto some who never sought him. Isai. 65. 1. That we may 〈…〉 from hence for ever to fear and avoyd that haeretical doctrine of the Arminians so deeply dangerous to the salvation of mens souls and so exceedingly derogatory to the glory of Gods free grace in Christ, who maintayn that if we do what we can, and improve the natural abilities ⟨p. 300⟩we have, and the means we do enjoy God wil not deny to give us the grace supernatural we want. An opinion so gross that the Popish school wil not abide by it, and the most ingenuous of the Jesuits themselves do professedly oppose and condemn. For besides that it destroyes the comfort of a sinner & dasheth the hopes of al the sons of men, for if none should be saved but those that do what they can, its certayn never any man either in nature or grace did what he either emproveing his natural abilities as he might according to special opportunites and liberties put into his hand, nor faithful ever tohusband their grace according to what they received and was expected, and might also be justly challenged at their hands; If therefore their hopes had their support here, their hearts and hopes and comforts and happiness and al would fayl them, and they must needs have their lives and their everlasting condition ever in doubt and suspence, and in issue sink down in everlasting discouragment, but I say besides this it destroyes the whol frame of grace in the carriage of it.